On Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 10:47:24PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Also, the regex matches the whole range from '"' to '_' (including ':' which is the field separator in /etc/passwd so should be prohibited). Is this intended or is it a mistake ?
I think that's a bug in adduser. chfn rejects that, so adduser ends up with a weird error message. I have adapted the regex in adduser to fix that:
commentre => qr/[-"_\.+!\$%&()\]\[;0-9a-zA-Z\/ ]*/,↲
I would be disappointed if Debian stopped allowing international characters in the full name without a good reason.
Agreed. Please suggest a better value for commentre. I have also asked the shadow/passwd maintainer for their input since its their tool that needs to handle the input as well.
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